Boxing

2:20 PM ET IBF and WBO junior lightweight champion Mikaela Mayer has agreed to a multi-year extension with Top Rank that will earn her seven-figures over the life of the deal. The 31-year-old Mayer (16-0, 5 KO) will have her 17th pro fight Saturday night as the headliner against Jennifer Han in Costa Mesa, California

7:48 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Gennadiy Golovkin stormed through the red, white and blue ropes encompassing the ring in disgust and made a beeline for his dressing room. He wasn’t interested in sticking around at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for the customary postfight interview. What was left to be said? Golovkin firmly believed he

7:48 AM ET A couple of texts exchanged and roughly five minutes is all it takes for Ryan Garcia to embark down the southern California coastline for a trip with no exact destination. It’s the favorite part of Garcia’s first official training camp under new trainer Joe Goossen, who lives close enough to Garcia in

7:47 AM ET When Jennifer Han got the call in 2021, she knew this was not going to be easy. Not even close. The opponent — undisputed lightweight champion Katie Taylor — was very talented. There was also her own situation. Han had given birth to her second child, Nolan, months before. She said she

7:33 AM ET Former featherweight world champion Lee Selby has retired at the age of 35 in the wake of his defeat to Gustavo Lemos in Buenos Aires last month. Selby, who held the IBF featherweight title for three years after beating Evgeny Gradovich in 2015, suffered the first stoppage defeat of his career in

6:36 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Savannah Marshall made quick work of Femke Hermans on Saturday, stopping her with a crunching left hook in the third round to set up

The weekend brings four major main events and some entertaining undercard bouts from California to Texas to Japan. Middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin faces fellow champion Ryota Murata in a highly anticipated fight in Saitama, Japan. A GGG victory will put him in position to face Canelo Alvarez in a trilogy fight, this time at super

Mar 27, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN George Kambosos and Devin Haney have struck a deal for a June 5 fight for the undisputed lightweight championship at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, Top Rank announced on Thursday. The bout will take place Sunday afternoon in Australia to accommodate a June 4 prime-time broadcast in the United States

4:12 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Janibek Alimkhanuly and Danny Dignum will meet for the WBO’s interim middleweight title on May 21, sources tell ESPN. No location has been finalized for the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN main event, but the bout will take place in the U.S. Former 130-pound titleholder Jamel Herring, who lost his

11:54 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Naoye Inoue and Nonito Donaire are set to meet again in a rematch of ESPN’s 2019 Fight of the Year. Inoue, ESPN’s No. 3 pound-for-pound boxer, announced on social media that he’s set to fight Donaire on June 7 (a Tuesday) at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Inoue will

9:31 AM ET World heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk’s rematch with Anthony Joshua is likely to take place in June with Saudi Arabia among the venues being considered, his promoter told Sky Sports. Usyk beat Joshua in front of a sell-out crowd at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in September to seize the WBA, WBO, IBF and

8:07 AM ET Mike Coppinger Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show After a slow start to the year, the boxing schedule heats up starting next month. April 9 really kicks the action off

2:11 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN George Kambosos and Devin Haney have struck a deal for a June 5 fight for the undisputed lightweight championship at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, sources tell ESPN. The bout will take place Sunday afternoon in Australia to accommodate a June 4 prime-time broadcast in the United States on ESPN,

12:11 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Miguel Berchelt was brutally knocked out by Oscar Valdez in February 2021, and it’s now apparent he lost much more than just his 130-pound title that night. In his 135-pound debut, Berchelt was stopped in Round 6 by Namibia’s Jeremia Nakathila on Saturday in Las Vegas in an early contender

12:14 AM ET Australian boxing star Tim Tszyu has announced his arrival on the international stage with a unanimous points decision over Terrell Gausha in his much-anticipated US debut in Minneapolis. Tszyu was dropped in the opening round before recovering to win over the trio of American judges and claim a brave victory in his

8:03 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Josh Warrington turned around his career with a spiteful seventh round win over Kiko Martinez to reclaim the IBF world featherweight title Saturday. Warrington

5:09 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Teofimo Lopez is eyeing a June or July return after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right hand Thursday in Los Angeles, the boxer’s manager, David McWater, told ESPN. Lopez, 24, also had arthroscopic surgery on his left elbow in February in L.A., McWater said. The hand surgery lasted about two

9:00 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Josh Warrington is confident he can emulate Saturday’s opponent Kiko Martinez’s reversal of fortune and turn his career around to become a two-time world